Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A popular English name of several fishes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The Pagrus auratus (syn. Chrysophrys auratus), a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.
  • noun The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A marine fish, Pagrus or Chrysophrys auratus, with a golden-coloured head; the giltpoll.
  • noun Crenilabrus melops, a coastal fish; the golden maid, conner, or sea partridge.

Etymologies

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gilt +‎ head

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Examples

  • Local Ocean's current stock includes royal dorado (also known as gilthead sea bream), fluke, black sea bass, white sea bass, yellowtail and branzino.

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  • A number of fish also are found in sea-estuaries; such as the saupe, the gilthead, the red mullet, and, in point of fact, the greater part of the gregarious fishes.

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  • The hake also and the gilthead hide; and we infer that the hake hides over a lengthened period from the fact that it is only caught at long intervals.

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  • Next in order of spawning comes the chrysophrys or gilthead, the basse, the mormyrus, and in general such fish as are nicknamed ‘runners’.

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  • The gilthead also suffers in winter; the acharnas suffers in summer, and loses condition.

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  • Aurata Assa (grilled gilthead sea bream, with a sauce of lovage, caraway, oregano, mint and honey)

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  • [233-2] The English equivalent is dory, or gilthead.

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  • Another example is that of the gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata), a native of the

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  • Here we report the molecular characterization, developmental and tissue expression and regulation by nutritional state of a novel TGF-beta gene from a marine fish, the gilthead sea bream Sparus aurata.

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  • What about this other Tripolitanian gilthead, Hannobalus?”

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